From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7N8jZrT016608 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7N8jXwb021051 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:45:34 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:56:48 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Russell Coker Cc: Alexandre Oliva , SE Linux , fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fedora and udev Message-ID: <20040823085648.GC15972@lkcl.net> References: <200408222125.38169.russell@coker.com.au> <200408231209.01521.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200408231209.01521.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:01PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:00, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2004, Russell Coker wrote: > > > It seems that udev is now virtually mandatory as of the latest > > > rawhide update. > > > > This is what makes it, like, mandatory: > > > > /etc/udev/udev.conf: > > UDEV_INITRD="yes" > > > > Change it to `no' and hopefully everything will work again. It breaks > > more than SELinux. > > Thanks for that advice. Once I looked at that I noticed that there's an > option UDEV_RAMFS in the same file which must be set to "no". I'm not sure > whether UDEV_RAMFS="no" would allow it to work on SE Linux with > UDEV_INITRD="yes" but don't have any plans to test this at the moment. where does that option come from? on debian, all the options in 0.030's config file are lower-case, and there's no udev_initrd="yes" or "no". > We either need to get ramfs working in the Fedora kernels or make some changes > to the udev plans. > > One option would be to use an ext2 file system on a ram disk for udev. It > would do all the same stuff as ramfs (at a slightly higher memory cost) and > work perfectly with SE Linux. *whew*. l. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.